An employee of Environmental Management Specialists checks on possible diesel fuel contamination in a culvert near the Maple Avenue Kroger store Monday evening.

Written by

Brian Gadd
Staff Writer

A cleanup crew was still pumping water out of a north Zanesville creek late Monday after a morning fuel spill about a mile away.

Muskingum County Emergency Management Agency Deputy Director Jeff Jadwin said there was concern diesel fuel had been pushed through the city's storm sewer system toward the creek that runs behind the Maple Avenue Pizza Hut and next to the Kroger building.

The spill occurred at the Maple Avenue Speedway shortly before 10 a.m. when a man who was pumping diesel into his truck walked away from the vehicle and the nozzle fell to the ground. ...